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Due to the great number of perspectives which can be taken on the subject, it is impossible to form a single, all-embracing conception of European culture. [65] Nonetheless, there are core elements which are generally agreed upon as forming the cultural foundation of modern Europe. [66] One list of these elements given by K. Bochmann includes: [67]
Whilst there are a great number of perspectives that can be taken on the subject, it is impossible to form a single, all-embracing concept of European culture. [2] Nonetheless, there are core elements which are generally agreed upon as forming the cultural foundation of modern Europe. [3] One list of these elements given by K. Bochmann includes ...
The Romani people are today found across the world. Typically, Roma adopt given names that are common in the country of their residence. Seldom do modern Roma use the traditional name from their own language, such as Čingaren. Romanes is the only Indo-Aryan language that has been spoken exclusively around Europe since the Middle Ages. [17]
European values are the norms and values that Europeans are said to have in common, and which transcend national or state identities. [1] In addition to helping promote European integration, this doctrine also provides the basis for analyses that characterise European politics, economics, and society as reflecting a shared identity; it is often associated with human rights, electoral democracy ...
The aboriginal inhabitants of Sicily, long absorbed into the population, were tribes known to the ancient Greek writers as the Elymians, the Sicanians, and the Sicels, the last being an Indo-European-speaking people of possible Italic affiliation, who migrated from the Italian mainland (likely from the Amalfi Coast or Calabria via the Strait of Messina) during the second millennium BC, after ...
Ageism was a feature of ancient Eurasian nomad culture. [19] Steppe societies placed a premium on the value of young males, as shown by their harsh treatment of older people. [ 20 ] The Alans held their elderly in low regard, and the Saka customarily executed people once they were too old to work. [ 20 ]
However, archaeological finds from the Halstatt and La Tène culture were rare in Iberia, southwestern France, northern and western Britain, southern Ireland and Galatia [67] [68] and did not provide enough evidence for a culture like that of Central Europe. It is equally difficult to maintain that the origin of the Iberian Celts can be linked ...
Slavonic and East European Review (1922–1927, 1928–present); Previously published as The Slavonic Review (1922–1927). Published by the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies; ISSN 0037-6795 (print), ISSN 2222-4327 (online).